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References
- 1 2 3 4 Kukla, Jon (1981). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776 . Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0-88490-075-4.Kukla, pp. 45-46
- 1 2 3 Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Cyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1 pp. 118-119
- ↑ Oakland Farm Industrial Park partial inventory Section 8, p. 2 at https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/64000884_text
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004)) vol. 2, p. 299 et seq.
- ↑ Jim Harwood, The Harwood Family, Including Allied Families (Norfolk, 1998) pp. 10, 14, names the middle brothers as John and George, but only notes a birth date for John of 1621 and no marriage, issue nor death dates
- 1 2 3 John V. Quarstein and Parke S. Rouse, Jr., Newport News: A Centennial History (City of Newport News 1996) p. 17
- ↑ Complicating matters, another less genteel Thomas Harwood (who died in 1657) patented 100 acres in York County in 1637 and became a justice of the peace of that county, as well as had sons named Thomas, Samuel and Gerard. Family historian Jim Harwood p.14 believes that man was the son of this man's son Humphrey Harwood, yet states he was born in England around 1609 when this man his grandfather was only 9 years old. That last York Thomas Harwood died in 1700 and his second wife deeded land she had inherited from him to her son Thomas Willis. See Dorman p. 300 n.7
- ↑ Although Tyler vo. 4 p. 447 believes the Samuel Harwood who represented Charles City County (upstream on the James River from Warwich County) was descended from this man, modern research does not corroborate that connection, so the Samuel and Joseph Harwood line was either descended from another immigrant or from the early burgess William Harwood of Martin's Hundred, as deduced by family historian Jim Harwood p. 10, who traces that Samuel's descent from the slaughtered William's son Joseph (1640-1680) and his son by his wife Joyce Meldrum, also Joseph (1659-1737, who married Agnes Cocke and whose son married a woman of the same name).
- 1 2 McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. OCLC 812189309.
- ↑ Dorman p. 301
- ↑ Dorman pp. 300, 302
- 1 2 McCartney, Martha W. (2007). Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-8063-1774-8.
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 20, 23, 26, 27
- ↑ McCartney 2007 p. 365
- ↑ Leonard p. xiii
- ↑ Leonard, p. xx
- ↑ Dorman p. 301
- ↑ Dorman p. 301
- ↑ https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/64000884_text
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